The Geniality of Lewis

Dale notes that he learned of 'the actual-language relation' correctly from Lewis.

In fact, as Dale notes,

"Peacocke--in his "Truth Definitions and Actual Languages" (1976) (this was Peacocke's contribution to Evans and McDowell, Truth and Meaning (1976))--attributes the notion of an "actual language relation" correctly--as I do--to David Lewis. See Lewis's article "Languages and Language" (1975)."

Dale expands: "I learned the notion of an "actual language relation" directly from Lewis's article. I only learned of Peacocke's article long afterward. Schiffer was deeply interested in using the notion of an "actual language relation" in his work after "Remnants of Meaning" (1987). I discussed these matters with Schiffer in the early 1990's quite a bit. See his paper "Actual Language Relations" (1993) which was published in Philosophical Perspectives. It is available on JSTOR."

Thanks.
I love Lewis. I would discuss Lewis (if 'discuss' you would call this) with G. N. Lakoff. Lakoff has made his views on Lewis publicly elsewhere -- motivated by some of my remarks!
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I should see if I can retrieve that post!
There was so much of a geniality in the thought of David Kellogg Lewis!
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